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The Philosophers Before Descartes: Avicenna, Averroes, and the Islamic Roots of Western Thought

The Philosophers Before Descartes: Avicenna, Averroes, and the Islamic Roots of Western Thought

Turnage, Clayton Louis

Paperback

Series: Before the Renaissance: Persia, Islam, and the Hidden Origins of Western Genius, Book 9

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryIslamGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN13: 9798199365819
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 31 2026
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Before Descartes declared, I think, therefore I am, the Islamic world had already spent centuries asking what the self is, what the soul knows, and why anything exists at all.

The usual story of Western philosophy runs from Greece to Rome, from Christianity to the Renaissance, and then to Descartes as the father of modern thought. But that story leaves out one of its most important chapters: the philosophers of the Islamic Golden Age.

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